2022 Best Value Media Management Schools for a Master’s in Pennsylvania

When it comes to choosing a college, students have a lot of options - but not all of them are good. College Factual was founded, in part, to help students make the decision as to what would be the best school for them. Our “Best Value Media Management Schools for a Master’s in Pennsylvania” ranking is part of that endeavor.

Arts & Media Management is the 137th most popular major in the country with 5,059 degrees awarded in 2019-2020. In 2017-2018, arts and media management graduates who were awarded their degree in 2015-2017, earned an average of $31,959 and had an average of $35,302 in loans still to pay off.

Across Pennsylvania, there were 279 arts and media management graduates with average earnings and debt of $31,375 and $36,014 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 102 arts and media management graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively.

For this year’s “Best Value Media Management Schools for a Master’s in Pennsylvania” ranking, we looked at 2 colleges that offer a degree in arts and media management. Not only do the schools that top this list have excellent arts and media management programs, but they also cost less that schools of similar quality.

When determining these rankings, we looked at things such as overall quality of the arts and media management program at the school and the cost to attend the school once aid has been awarded. Check out our ranking methodology for more information.

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Best Value Media Management Schools for a Master’s in Pennsylvania

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Media Management Schools for a Master’s in Pennsylvania.

Top 2 Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for Arts & Media Management in Pennsylvania

#1

Drexel University

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

#2 in overall quality

$37,074 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

$37,980 Average Early-Career Earnings

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Drexel University. It ranked #1 on our 2022 Best Value Media Management Schools for a Master’s in Pennsylvania list. This large school is located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and it awarded 39 masters’s media management degrees in 2019-2020.

Drexel did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #2 on our “Best Arts & Media Management Master’s Degree Schools in Pennsylvania” list. Average graduate tuition and fees at Drexel University are $37,074, but you may pay more or less depending on your major.

Read full report on Arts & Media Management at Drexel

#2

Carnegie Mellon University

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

#1 in overall quality

$47,326 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

$47,260 Average Early-Career Earnings

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Carnegie Mellon University. The school came in at #2 for the Best Value Media Management Schools for a Master’s in Pennsylvania. Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania is the setting for this fairly large institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out masters’s media management degrees to 58 students in 2019-2020.

Carnegie Mellon not only placed well in this ranking. It is also #1 on our “Best Arts & Media Management Master’s Degree Schools in Pennsylvania” list. Average graduate tuition and fees at Carnegie Mellon University are $47,326, but some majors have different tuition rates.

Read full report on Arts & Media Management at Carnegie Mellon University

• Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for Arts & Media Management in the Middle Atlantic Region
• Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for Arts & Media Management

Notes and References

References

• The Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS) from the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), a branch of the U.S. Department of Education (DOE) serves as the core of our data about colleges.
• Some other college data, including much of the graduate earnings data, comes from the U.S. Department of Education’s (College Scorecard).
• Information about the national average student loan default rate is from the U.S. Department of Education and refers to data about the 2016 borrower cohort tracking period for which the cohort default rate (CDR) was 10.1%.

Read more about our data sources and methodologies

Footnotes

• *Average salary, average net price, and average tuition and fees are for the top schools only.
• Some schools otherwise deserving of recognition may have been removed from this ranking in the event that new data identified post-publication warranted it, or at the request of the school.

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